Baptiste Delaplace

Baptiste Delaplace (23 April 1759-10 December 1793) was a colonel of the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Baptiste Delaplace was born on 23 April 1759 in Paris in the Kingdom of France to a bourgeois family, and he purchased a commission in the French Army in 1780. He became a sergeant in the cavalry, but his non-noble birth meant that he could not become a high-ranking officer. After the French Revolution of 1789, Delaplace was able to become the colonel of a regiment of cavalry volunteers in Les Ormes, France, and later took over a regiment of cuirassiers during the French Revolutionary Wars and fought in the battle of Sorbey in 1793. He was killed by friendly fire from Chasseurs a Cheval while leading a charge against German Fusiliers in the woods.